214 THE HORSE. 



At the sale of the eifects of the late David Bryan, Lady 

 Suffolk, I believe, was purchased by Messrs. Shaw and White, 

 tlien lessees of the Union Course. In the latter part of 1853, 

 she was purchased by D. Edgar Hill, of Bridport, when she 

 was put in the stud and bred to Black Hawk, and prematurely 

 dropped a foal to him in 1854. 



In February last, a most excellent likeness of the Lady — so 

 represented by a correspondent of the " Spirit " — was taken on 

 canvas, which her owner intended to have lithographed, and 

 on the 7th of March, as if this noble old mare considered that 

 her mission had ended with the taking of her portrait, she died 

 in the stable of one who knew how to value her past services. 

 But I cannot do better than copy " Peter Basswood's " letter 

 from the "Spirit" of the ITth of March, and close; — 



LADY SUFFOLK IS DEAD I 

 " Death, cold usurer, hath seized his bonded debtor." 



She died at Edgar Hill's, Bridport, Yt., on the 7th of March, 

 in what Mr. Hill supposed to be a fit, as she was in apparent 

 health but a short time before she died ; Mr. H. was in the 

 stable when she fell to stand no more. Thus passed from the 

 turf to a resting place beneath it, an old familiar. We shall 

 see " The Gray Mare " no more, but her deeds are recorded in 

 the archives of the " Spirit," and will live long after the epi- 

 taph of 3'our humble scribbler shall be written ; and when our 

 hair shall have grown as white as hers that were once gray, we 

 shall look back througli the distance to the deeds that she per- 

 formed on the Beacon, the Centreville, the Union, the Hunting 

 Park, and Cambridge Courses, for 



"There's a feeling within us that loves to revert 

 To the merry old times that are gone." 



P. S. — Since the above was written, I have been informed 

 that Mr. White, of Saratoga, was the owner of Lady Suffolk 

 from the time she left " the Island " till her death, and that he 

 merely sent her to Mr. Hill to be bred to Black Hawk, 



From, the New York Spirit of the Times. 



